Sabetha Belacoros

Sabetha Belacoros, from The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch, is a trained thief and con woman, hired by mages to run a campaign in a city election. The opposing party, run by two old friends, one being a former lover. In the scene I took the outfit from, she's gone to a private dinner with her old lover in a hanging basket. She's described wearing "a buttercream gown under a jacket the color of rich dark brandy, and her hair fell loose past her shoulders". Later, she exits by sliding down a rope, skirts billowing around her. She's proudly independent, so the kirtle laces in the front and doesn't need assistance, and not wearing skirt supports in order to move and climb more freely. While the books are set in an alternate world, one with mages and dark alchemy and the remains of alien civilizations, the world and styles described are most closely compared to the latter half of the 1500's, so that's what I based her on. Her home city of Camorr is heavily inspired by Renaissance Venice, and the rest of the city states are very Italian, so in turn I gave her an Italian camicia with vintage lace and matching pearl-trimmed partlet over it, adding a woman's doublet for textural contrast with its structure. The doublet is loosely based on an extant jerkin held by the Met, only closing in front, and with different trim, just a similar fabric.